Blue Coat Spyware Interceptor™ is an easy-to-deploy anti-spyware
appliance for networks of up to 1000 users. Interceptor prevents
known and unknown spyware while enabling legitimate applications via
proven proxy technology. Interceptor’s patent-pending SCOPE™
anti-spyware engine optimizes its ten methods of protection daily to
minimize the need for cleaning spyware, keyloggers and adware from
your desktops. |
Spyware Interceptor benefits include:
Easy, affordable, and effective at preventing spyware
Automatically updates spyware profiles, policies, and prevention techniques.
Backed by world-leading experts in web proxy performance and security at
Blue Coat Labs™
Blue Coat’s patent-pending Spyware Catching Object Protection Engine (SCOPE)
intercepts and analyzes all executable web traffic, then implements preset
policy preferences to remove known, likely, or simply potential spyware.
SCOPE allows viewing the non-executable portions of web pages whenever
possible. SCOPE uniquely evaluates risk based on characteristics of the
executable code and a comparison of the referring site to more than 8.0
million analyzed sites. SCOPE uses 10 methods of spyware prevention that can
be configured with a simple GUI. SCOPE blocks known and unknown spyware both
inbound and outbound, while enabling page views and legitimate applications.
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Why is the spyware problem so
difficult to solve?
Spyware is rapidly recompiled so that signature-based systems are
unable to keep up with the numerous, easily generated, original
spyware files from web servers, rendering signature-based approaches
ineffective.
Packet-based systems cannot recognize the difference between
appropriate executables and spyware, hence they are not accurate
enough to be effective.
Simple URL filtering systems are binary. They block the entire web
page, sometimes inhibiting legitimate business usages, or do not
block at all allowing spyware downloads to the entire organization.
Spyware desktop cleaning utilities only report when a PC is already
infected, and then only for known spyware infections. Tests show
they can not completely remove 30-60% of the spyware, leading many
IT professionals to simply reimage infected PC’s.
What makes Blue Coat Systems’ approach unique?
While spyware executable code changes every few days or hours, the
sites that push spyware are much more constant. Once a website has
taken money for pushing spyware, it is highly likely they will
continue to do so. Blue Coat prevents spyware by tracking those
sites known or highly likely to push spyware, and then removing the
potential spyware code in downloads from those sites.
Blue Coat’s optimized and streamlined proxy appliance delivers the
best balance of spyware prevention and business process enablement
for a uniquely real-world solution. Only Blue Coat Systems has the
necessary combination of world-class proxy expertise (20,000+
installations) to understand Web objects, plus deep content
filtering expertise (over 8.0 million web sites analyzed) required
to identify known and likely spyware sources, strip out spyware
downloads, yet enable needed page views. This combination delivers
effective, sustainable and usable gateway spyware prevention.
"Spyware Interceptor delivers effective prevention to help you
escape from the futile cycle of manually cleaning spyware off of
PC's only to have it reappear a few days later." |
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Bluecoat Spyware Interceptor.
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